The Funhouse

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Year:	1981
Country of origin:	USA
Director:	Tobe Hooper
Genre:	Carnival based slasher
Starring:	Elizabeth Berridge, Cooper Huckabee, Largo Woodruff, Miles Chapin
Rating:	2/5
IMDB link:	http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082427/
Tagline:	Something is alive in the funhouse...something that, tonight, will turn the funhouse into a carnival of terror!
Favourite line:	None worth mentioning

When a carnival rolls into town, four teenagers who look like they are in their early thirties decide to go and have a little fun.
Well, no surprises that all is not as it appears at the carnival.
After somewhat foolishly deciding to spend the night in the titular funhouse, with the emphasis very much on the tit, the quartet are stalked through the attraction by some hideously deformed monster wearing a Frankenstein mask.
That's the rough outline of the plot but, truthfully, nothing really happens.
Tobe Hooper is at the helm here, the man responsible for Chainsaw Massacre and, in comparison, this is a tame none event that had me bored to rigid tears after thirty excruciating minutes.
I struggled through to the end, but I don't recommend that you do the same.
Dire.